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Recently Mashable described Deepak Chopra as, "a guru of personal well-being, faith and the intersection of eastern and western medicine."

Chopra's work has recently become more popular thanks to the Internet. He has 1.2 million Twitter followers. On Google+ he has more than 680,000 followers and now he has his own YouTube channel.

He spoke with Mashable about how social media and technology has enhanced his faith, noting, “With social networks, there is no ethnic, racial or geographical boundary. We can bring people into humanity by transcending those boundaries.”

Others, however, have said technology is causing a problem in faith communities because it detracts from face-to-face relationships.

We asked our panelists about it.

Is technology helping or hindering your faith?

Topics: Culture, Arts & Media
Beliefs: Interfaith
Tags: deepak chopra, internet and religion, mashable and deepak chopra, social media and faith, technology and faith, technology and religion

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On the surface, technology is helping our faith

On the surface it would seem that technology is helping our faith. We are able to connect through email more easily and often than with traditional snail mail. It is a greener form of communication and certainly less expensive.
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Technology has brought communication to a new level

Technology has most certainly helped my faith. It has opened communication to a new level.
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Christians were among one of the first to utilize the new technology

Christians were among one of the first to utilize the new technology of codex to get their message out. Christians have since been a faith that used the the latest technology to get the Gospel out.
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Technology is greatly helping my faith

Technology is greatly helping my faith, and here are just a few of the ways, big and small, in no particular order, that we love technology: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon/LDS) is big time into genealogy/family history, and you can imagine how computers and the internet have helped that work.
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Technology strengthens connections

In our church community group last week we called our friends on mission in Sudan, Africa from the living room of the home where we were meeting. We talked to our missionaries as a small group, while the mother of one of the missionaries held her smart phone up so all could hear.
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I see technology as something neutral

Everyday my 3-year old son and I partake of this ritual. As we sit at our cozy kitchen table and eat lunch together, he’ll say, “Mama, do you want to play ‘Santa Claus is comin’ to town’?”
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Technology is an influence on my faith

Technology is a broad term and it is an influence on my faith development. It is also impacting my work as a leader in a community of faith.  First the negative.
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From connecting to organizing, technology moves atheism forward

Nontheism has seen a tidal wave of growth in the past decade, due in large part to the Internet. The ability for nontheists to find one another, share ideas, and form communities—both online and in the real world—has been a boon for us.
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